The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 18 cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup cold butter; 1 cup brown sugar; 0.75 cup sugar; 2 each eggs; 2 tsp vanilla; 2.75 cup flour; 1 tsp cornstarch; 0.75 tsp baking soda; 0.75 tsp salt; 2 each chocolate chips

Melissa Stadler · modernhoney.com · 2019 · Original Recipe

Here's a tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe that will impress everyone!

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Ingredients

cold butter(cut into cubes, if you want a slightly thinner cookie, microwave for 7-8 seconds)1 cup (227g)

brown sugar1 cup (140g)

sugar0.75 cup (105g)

eggs2 each (100g)

vanilla2 tsp (6g)

flour(may use all-purpose or 1 cup cake flour and 1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour)2.75 cup (385g)

cornstarch1 tsp (3g)

baking soda0.75 tsp (5g)

salt0.75 tsp (2g)

chocolate chips(semi-sweet or mix of milk chocolate and semi-sweet)2 each (340g)

Total dough weight1.3kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: cold
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 400°F (204°C)
Bake Time: 10-12 min
Chill: 24 hr
Yield: ~18 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 2.7. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat1.70 (70th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.57 (78th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar1.33 (72th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.26 (50th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour0.88 (48th percentile)

Fat %17.3 (66th percentile)

Sugar %18.7 (38th percentile)

Hydration0.26 (42th percentile)

Bake Temp400 (98th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.70

Flour:Sugar

1.57

Brown:White Sugar

1.33

Egg:Flour

0.26

Chocolate:Flour

0.88

Fat %

17.3

Sugar %

18.7

Flour %

29.3

Hydration